Friday, December 07, 2007

good little consumer

TV is based on creating dissatisfaction. It cannot exist without dissatisfaction. Happy people make bad consumers.

John Osborn

Dec 7, 2007 11:08:15 AM | ear candy

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pretending we're separate We weren't always so destructive. But for some reason maybe six thousand years ago we began to see ourselves as separate from--and set against--other tribes, other cultures, other species: others. How you behave depends on how you see and feel your self. Once we see ourselves as separate from the rest of the world, we start to see every other being as a mere thing, and we begin to believe that we can get away with working our will on the world, that there wouldn't be negative consequences for attempting to do so, for pretending we're separate. George Draffan
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